This started with a dress and a vision. In 2021, I wanted to do a wearable rope dress using my netting technique. While working on it, I envisioned it being woren by a woman sitting on a swing, above water. Last year, I realized that was my view on femininity in 2021. My default view from all the information I assimilated unconsciously. I also realized, that the autumn of 2021 marked the questioning of this viex with the beginning of “From an orange point of view” project.
Last year, I went full on questioning what femininity means for everyone. So, I created the vision I had in 2021, as an installation called “The moment before I woke” as a starting point. By the end of the year, I was realizing that an answer may not be apparent anytime soon. I also wondered about the worth of this endavour. As I was about to decide to leave this project aside, Tārā took my attention. She has crossed my path before, but I never gave her much attention. This time, she felt like the answer though what the answer was didn’t reveal itself until january 2026 and even this answer feels like a stepping stone now. However, in January it felt like exactly what I was looking for and that Tārā guided me to the Goddess and her thread.
Even before this new perspective was revealed to me, the inspiration which Tārā provided made me want to pay tribute to her and I asked Livia Mateiaș to paint the manquin from “The moment before…” as Tārā together. She suggested to make it a performance with publiv and I picked the 28th of February as the 12th day of the new Chinese year and a sacred day in Buddhism. Felt perfect for a ritual of adoration, not just for Tārā, but for women, in general.
The performance-ritual was held at Galeria 5 in Timi, organized in partnership with artouching and the Municipality of Timisora through Centrul de Proiecte.
Elements of Tārā:
💚 left side painted by Livia -> feminine energy
💚 right side painted by me -> masculine energy
💚 hair made in macrame technique, resambling a flower garland
💚 decorated with the mantra AUM Tare TuTare Ture Svaha
💚 lotus painted on the belly
💚 AUM on Ajna chakra (Third Eye)
💚 AH on Vishudha (Throat chakra)
💚 HUM on Anahata (Heart chakra)
💚 Prithvi mudra in the left hand
💚 open right hand
💚 active posture, as if ready to start walking (typically, left foot folded and right foot sttetched forward)
Bonus: flourescent paint highlights small and pointing fingers in a reference to sign language sign for “love”.
Tārā means Liberator
She has 21 aspects of which Green Tārā is the most common one and symbolizes unconditional compassion.
Tārā’s mantra is: 🌸 AUM Tare TuTare Ture Svaha 🌸 and it’s meaning is:
✨️ AUM is a sacred sound without a specific meaning. Chanted correctly, one can feel a vibration rising through to body ftom the abdomen to the head.
✨️ Tare – liberation from suffering
✨️ TuTare – liberation from the 8th fears*: fire / anger, imprisonment / avarice, lions / pride, floods /attachment, elephants / ignorance, demons / doubt, snakes / envy, robbers /wrong views
✨️ Ture – liberation from ignorance/ ego
✨️ Svaha – may the meaning of the mantra take root in my mind
*ancient / modern interpretation
The joy of creating 